Search results for "Erie Canal" - New World Encyclopedia
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- ===Erie Canal=== The Erie Canal, one of the most ambitious engineering projects of ...20 KB (3,020 words) - 23:16, 21 October 2022
- [[Image:Port Robinson Ferry.jpg|thumb|300px|left|The Welland Canal]] obstacle in the construction of the Erie Canal in New York and was traversed ...10 KB (1,467 words) - 23:26, 14 November 2022
- development in the U.S. when the Erie Canal provided a link, by way ... known as New England. By virtue of the Erie Canal it became a means for vital ...23 KB (3,395 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- activity following the War of 1812 with canal building on both sides of ... the Great Lakes, although it exceeds Lake Erie in volume (393 cubic miles ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 23:19, 21 October 2022
- of larger boats; the construction of the Erie Canal from Buffalo, New York ... The seaway's opening is often credited with making the Erie Canal ...15 KB (2,273 words) - 20:48, 17 April 2023
- Ocean from the Great Lakes when the Erie Canal opened in 1825. By 1848 ... after the development of the Erie Canal and the much later Welland ...32 KB (4,828 words) - 02:10, 21 January 2023
- a way to oppose Clinton's plan for the Erie Canal in 1817. Van Buren supported a bill that raised money for the canal through state bonds, and ...22 KB (3,321 words) - 15:53, 7 November 2022
- granted land abutting the proposed Wabash and Erie Canal. Work began on the Wabash and Erie Canal in 1832, on the Whitewater ...31 KB (4,480 words) - 18:55, 4 March 2024
- at the approximate location of the present Welland Canal. resistant Lockport formation between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. In doing ...27 KB (4,264 words) - 09:42, 11 March 2023
- manufacturing capacity. To the north, Lake Erie gives Ohio 312 miles (502 ... much of its northern border defined by Lake Erie. Ohio's neighbors are ...38 KB (5,430 words) - 22:43, 12 February 2022
- Lakes. Work commenced in 1817, and the Erie Canal was finished in 1825 and ... first the Hudson River and then the Erie Canal. Today, railroad lines ...44 KB (6,512 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
- consumer of black powder was the Erie Canal in New York, which was started in 1817, was 585 km long, and took eight years to complete. ...14 KB (2,154 words) - 14:28, 8 February 2022
- of the lakes. Ice frequently covers Lake Erie but seldom fully covers the ... rails. The early nineteenth century Erie Canal and mid-twentieth century ...23 KB (3,330 words) - 22:50, 21 January 2023
- had been turned into canals and connected to the Erie Canal. [[Image:Lucretiamott2.jpg|thumb|250px|Lucretia Mott ]] == Background == ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 09:46, 26 January 2023
- by being involved in the construction of the Erie Canal, in 1825. At the age of fourteen, her formal education ended when she became a rural schoolteacher ...11 KB (1,718 words) - 08:56, 27 September 2023
- * The Niagara River, the river which flows between Lake Erie and Lake ... * Canal * Drought * Hydrology * Rain * Stream * Tributary ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 01:43, 15 December 2022
- the Great Lakes. The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, completed an all ... that the Midwest funneled into the Erie Canal contributed to the wealth ...28 KB (4,092 words) - 10:57, 10 March 2023
- studied medicine and was a laborer on the Erie Canal. [http://www.nndb.com/people/047/000103735/ Benjamin F. Wade], Soylent Communications. Retrieved ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 09:47, 28 September 2023
- Hudson in the autumn of 1825, the same year the Erie Canal opened, stopping first at West Point, then at Catskill Landing, where he ventured west high ...14 KB (2,021 words) - 23:21, 29 September 2021
- Pennsylvania has 51 miles (82 kilometers) of coastline along Lake Erie and ... west by Ohio; and on the northwest by Lake Erie. The Delaware, Susquehanna ...35 KB (4,904 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2023
